About names in Spain
Spanish naming customs are closely tied to the Catholic calendar in many families, with a name sometimes chosen to align with a saint's feast day near the child's birth, and it remains common in Spain to celebrate a person's "saint's day" (onomástica) alongside or even instead of their birthday. It's also a long-standing Spanish custom for a person to carry two surnames, one from each parent, a practice that reflects how seriously Spanish naming tradition treats family lineage on both sides — though that particular custom applies to family names rather than the given names covered on this page. Regional identity also plays a role, with Basque, Catalan, and Galician naming traditions offering distinct alternatives to more widely used Spanish-language names within the same country.
Names covered for Spain on this page
This page currently covers 102 names for Spain as pyramid worksheets — 50 boy names and 52 girl names — including Aara, Aaradhya, Adrian, each already rendered and ready to print below, split by gender.
Using a Spain pyramid worksheet
Print at full size, hand a child a pencil, and let them work down the page one row at a time — the task gets a little longer on each row as the name grows, which naturally paces the practice without needing a timer or instructions.